So I'm on Week 2 Day One or Day 8, whatever suits you. It is Saturday here and I just finished lunch a little bit ago. It has been a really packed week. It feels like it must be Day 30 already, but it isn't. So here is an idea of my daily schedule:
7:30 am: Wake up and take a shower.
8:00ish am: Have breakfast.
8:30ish am: Head up to language class which starts at 9
9:00 am: Start language class. There are 4 sessions of class that last 50 minutes each with 10 minute breaks between each one.
12:50 pm: Finish language class and go to lunch.
1:00 pm: Eat lunch.
1:30ish pm: Finish lunch and go back to my room to trade out my stuff, my textbooks are a little heavy, don't want to carry them around everywhere.
2:00 pm: Start cultural or teach workshop. This is basically where current ETA's come in and share their experience and knowledge on a given topic. So we learned how to write lesson plans and what to expect on our first day of school and what our co-teachers will be like.
5:00ish pm: End of the workshop and go have a 1 hr break until dinner. During this time I usually go to my room and play on my computer or yesterday I went and played frisbee till dinner.
6:00ish pm: Have dinner.
The rest of the night is generally ours to do with as we choose. So I've hung out with people and I've stayed in my room like a recluse, but it is just the end of the first week so none of my habits are really in stone yet I think. This whole experience I think is a lot like being in college so it has been a little hard for me to adjust to the intensity of the schedule. I mean its planned programming all day like high school, but college level work and I just graduated from college so that is a little hard. In other news, I've had a really great time playing frisbee with people. I've made some friends that way. There is one girl (she's actually my neighbor on my floor) who used to play club frisbee in college so she is really good about making new learners feel welcome and good at throwing or receiving. I've been super psyched because my playing skills are pretty decent even though I haven't played hardly at all in a year.
Tomorrow I'm going to take my first trip out of this small town I'm in and head of to Seoul. I'm totally looking forward to revisiting the city and seeing some of my old favorite places to visit. I will meet my cousin there before he goes back stateside for a month. That will be a good time, I'm sure he has some cool ideas of places to go. Tomorrow is going to be a very good day.
7:30 am: Wake up and take a shower.
8:00ish am: Have breakfast.
8:30ish am: Head up to language class which starts at 9
9:00 am: Start language class. There are 4 sessions of class that last 50 minutes each with 10 minute breaks between each one.
12:50 pm: Finish language class and go to lunch.
1:00 pm: Eat lunch.
1:30ish pm: Finish lunch and go back to my room to trade out my stuff, my textbooks are a little heavy, don't want to carry them around everywhere.
2:00 pm: Start cultural or teach workshop. This is basically where current ETA's come in and share their experience and knowledge on a given topic. So we learned how to write lesson plans and what to expect on our first day of school and what our co-teachers will be like.
5:00ish pm: End of the workshop and go have a 1 hr break until dinner. During this time I usually go to my room and play on my computer or yesterday I went and played frisbee till dinner.
6:00ish pm: Have dinner.
The rest of the night is generally ours to do with as we choose. So I've hung out with people and I've stayed in my room like a recluse, but it is just the end of the first week so none of my habits are really in stone yet I think. This whole experience I think is a lot like being in college so it has been a little hard for me to adjust to the intensity of the schedule. I mean its planned programming all day like high school, but college level work and I just graduated from college so that is a little hard. In other news, I've had a really great time playing frisbee with people. I've made some friends that way. There is one girl (she's actually my neighbor on my floor) who used to play club frisbee in college so she is really good about making new learners feel welcome and good at throwing or receiving. I've been super psyched because my playing skills are pretty decent even though I haven't played hardly at all in a year.
Tomorrow I'm going to take my first trip out of this small town I'm in and head of to Seoul. I'm totally looking forward to revisiting the city and seeing some of my old favorite places to visit. I will meet my cousin there before he goes back stateside for a month. That will be a good time, I'm sure he has some cool ideas of places to go. Tomorrow is going to be a very good day.
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